Flat Unfair (weekly)

In Arizona, poor and middle-class residents are paying more for less—and Republicans keep lowering the tax burden on the rich
by Jim Nintzel
David Cay Johnston proves that the notion that half of all Americans skip out on paying taxes is a load of hogwash. Even if some citizens don't owe anything in federal income taxes, they pay sales taxes, gas taxes, Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes and plenty of other taxes—and for low- and middle-income Americans who don't have money left over to save, that's a big bite out of the dollars that they earn.…